Young Driver Focus 2024

6 November 2023

First Car announces the first two speakers at Young Driver Focus 2024 : Loveday Ryder, Chief Executive, DVSA, and Dan Quin, Chief Fire Officer, Surrey Fire & Rescue. 

Dan Quin, Chief Fire Officer of Surrey Fire & Rescue Service (SFRS) is also the National Fire Chiefs Council Road Safety and Road Rescue Lead. Dan has over 20 years’ experience within the industry and has specialised for many years in post-crash response. Dan is also the Vice Chair of the United Kingdom Rescue Organisation, a charity with the aim to ‘Advance Professional Rescue Together’.

Dan will talk about the collaborative approach being adopted by the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) to the design and delivery of evidence-based road safety education. He will outline progress to date, including the further development of the DriveFit intervention designed and tested by Dr Elizabeth Box; and how the NFCC is supporting the development of a suite of young driver focussed products/packages, that will be consistently delivered across partners.

Loveday Ryder will be welcomed back to the stage this year for an update on how the DVSA are working to improve the standard of young driver training and increase pass rates as they clear the backlog created by COVID-19.